I had an interesting card-glitch today though nothing as costly and dramatic as yours Rob.
Evenings while traveling I download from cards to my laptop, with a copy via Lightroom to an external drive. For this trip I had thought that I would NOT format the cards, but just leave the shots to accumulate; after all, my total for a couple of weeks is seldom more than 60-70 Gb, and with two cameras, four 32Gb cards I figured I would have no issue. Last night, as I approached capacity on card #1 in body #1, I changed my mind. After downloading from both bodies, I formatted the cards in slots 1 and 2 on both bodies. So today I did a bunch of shooting. Downloaded images from card #1 in body #1, but found nothing on card #1, body #2. Huh? I know I used body #2 at least some of the time! For some odd reason that has no apparent meaning for me, body #2 wrote only to card #2, bypassing the perfectly good card in slot #1. Nothing lost, but those images just not where I had expected them to be. stan On Mar 2, 2014, at 8:14 PM, Rob Studdert wrote: > Thanks guys, still coming to terms with the issue. > > The cards were all genuine Sandisk, Extreme 32GB 45MB/s, one new and > one old and an earlier Extreme 32GB 30MB/s card, none of which ever > gave me the remotest hint of a problem when used in two K5 bodies. Not > happy. > > Cheers, > > On 3 March 2014 11:44, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: >> Sorry to hear of your difficulties, Rob. >> >> May I ask what brand the cards are? >> >> As you may know SanDisk offers a recovery software. In addition to >> that, there are these: >> http://download.cnet.com/SDHC-Card-Recovery-Pro/3000-2248_4-75904835.html >> http://sd-card-format-recovery.soft112.com/ >> http://www.reclaime.com/library/memory-card-recovery.aspx >> >> No personal experience with any of them. Good luck. >> >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I'm very sorry to hear this, Rob. I wonder if you are seeing a similar >>> issue to what I saw very early on. I shot some stuff and returning >>> home I couldn't unload my card because it couldn't be read in my Mac. >>> The Mac unmounted the card shortly after insertion saying it had >>> damaged formating. And I couldn't convince the Disk Utility to repair >>> it either. >>> >>> Can you see the card content when inserted into the K-3? >>> >>> What I determined was that I had failed to reformat the SD card >>> immediately after purchase. After reformating (in-camera) that card >>> and another of the same type that I purchased later I have not had any >>> further problems after thousands of frames taken. >>> >>> After this incident I did switch the K-3 to dual (ie redundant) write >>> mode and I always have two cards inserted. I wasn't going to take any >>> more chances. :-( >>> >>> BTW, sadly I lost the content of that "damaged formating" card. I >>> could see the images when the card was in the K-3 but nothing I did >>> allowed me to extract that data, even over a USB cable. I was sorely >>> pissed off. >>> >>> Something I never tried doing was to mount the card under Windows and >>> use format repair utilities on it. I regret failing to try that but it >>> didn't occur to me at the time. >>> >>> I hope you have better luck. >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Rob Studdert <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> Well I'm just about toast if my card recovery doesn't go well, I shot >>>> a show last night, a fairly important one in fact and of three card >>>> used in the K3 only one is readable. The one card is a month or two >>>> old and the others I have had for a while and operated without a >>>> problem. All cards were formatted in camera before the gig so should >>>> be error free. >>>> >>>> I have the K3 set up to cascade from card 1 to 2 and when card two was >>>> full I replaced card 1 with an empty card and that's the only one that >>>> I can read. All 32 GB cards so 64GB of images are lost in the ether >>>> currently, feeling a bit ill and somewhat less than complimentary >>>> about the reliability of the K3 :( >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) >>>> Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours >>>> Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>> follow the directions. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> -bmw >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> >> -- >> Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs >> look like photographs. >> ~ Alfred Stieglitz >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > > -- > Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) > Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours > Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
